In March, 2012, School District 16 in Bedford-Stuyvesant was identified in an annual report by the Schott Foundation for Public Education as – once again – one of the lowest-performing districts in the city.
The report, A Rotting Apple: Education Redlining in New York City, concluded that because of the city’s policies and practices that result in an inequitable distribution of educational resources, children who are poor, Black and Hispanic have far less of an opportunity to learn the skills needed to succeed on state and federal assessments.
The findings—a somewhat familiar re-telling of the pernicious cycle of poverty—were less surprising as they were troubling, while District 16 emerged as the prototype of what happens when an educational system goes terribly wrong.
Read the full article at Bed-Stuy.Patch.
